What are the 48 AEO criteria?

The 48 criteria are organized into 5 pillars with fixed target shares: Answer Readiness 40%, Content Structure 25%, Trust & Authority 15%, Technical Foundation 10%, and AI Discovery 10%. Inside those pillars, criteria cover topic coherence, original data, depth, fact density, direct answers, Q&A structure, entity authority, freshness, visible dates, schema, semantic HTML, extraction friction, llms.txt, robots.txt, licensing, canonicals, sitemap coverage, and RSS. Each criterion is scored 0–10, converted into an effective weight after confidence and overlap controls, then rolled into the final score.

What does the RSS feed audit check?

The audit verifies your site has a discoverable RSS or Atom feed with proper metadata. It checks feed existence at common paths, a link tag in the HTML head, adequate item count, and pubDate per item. RSS feeds let AI indexing systems detect new content automatically without waiting for a full crawl.

What is definition pattern detection?

Definition pattern detection identifies sentence structures AI systems extract for direct-answer responses. Patterns like "AEO is the practice of..." or "Content velocity refers to..." are structures AI engines pull when answering "What is..." queries. Pages with clear definition patterns appear in direct-answer results at significantly higher rates.

What is content cannibalization and how does it hurt AI visibility?

Content cannibalization happens when multiple pages on your site target the same topic, forcing AI to guess which one to cite. The scorer compares page titles and content similarity across your site. Fix it by consolidating competing pages into one authoritative resource with 301 redirects from the old URLs. When Topic Coherence is low, the cannibalization penalty becomes more aggressive.

How does canonical URL strategy affect AI visibility?

When multiple URLs serve the same content — with/without www, HTTP/HTTPS, trailing slashes — AI crawlers split signals across duplicates. The audit checks every page for a rel=canonical link pointing to the correct URL. Missing or conflicting canonicals confuse crawlers about which version to index, diluting your AI visibility.

useboom.ai - AEO Audit Report | 51/100

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Moderate AI visibility with 29 of 48 criteria passing. Biggest gap: rss/atom feed.

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Scoring Methodology

How Your AEO Site Rank Is Calculated

A weighted average of 48 deterministic criteria. Each scored 0-10, each with a specific weight. No AI judgment calls - every point is traceable.

Weak visibilityOut of 100 possible points

The Formula

Score = sum(criterion_score / 10 * weight * 100) / sum(weights)

Each criterion is scored 0-10 by deterministic checks, multiplied by its weight, and summed to produce a 0-100 overall score.

Your Score Breakdown

Content9 criteria

Q&A Content Format15%6/10+9.0

FAQ Sections10%5/10+5.0

Original Data10%3/10+3.0

Content Freshness7%5/10+3.5

Direct Answer Paragraphs7%4/10+2.8

Fact & Data Density5%10/10+5.0

Definition Patterns4%0/10+0.0

Query-Answer Alignment8%4/10+3.2

Content Cannibalization5%5/10+2.5

Subtotal71%+34.0

Structure5 criteria

Schema.org JSON-LD15%10/10+15.0

Clean, Crawlable HTML10%9/10+9.0

Semantic HTML55%8/10+4.0

Table & List Extractability7%4/10+2.8

Schema Coverage3%6/10+1.8

Subtotal40%+32.6

Discovery5 criteria

llms.txt10%10/10+10.0

robots.txt for AI5%5/10+2.5

Internal Linking10%7/10+7.0

Sitemap Completeness5%7/10+3.5

RSS/Atom Feed3%0/10+0.0

Subtotal33%+23.0

Trust Signals6 criteria

Entity Authority10%6/10+6.0

Content Licensing4%2/10+0.8

Author & Expert Schema4%2/10+0.8

Canonical URL4%0/10+0.0

Content Velocity3%3/10+0.9

Visible Date Signals4%7/10+2.8

Subtotal29%+11.3

Overall Score100%51/100

Score Ranges

86-100AI-first content architecture

71-85Strong AI visibility

56-70Moderate visibility

41-55Weak visibility

26-40Minimal visibility

0-25Not on the radar

Key Points

Topic Coherence carries the highest weight at 14%, followed by Original Data at 10%, across 48 total criteria.

No HTTPS means Clean HTML is capped at 3/10, costing approximately 3-4 overall points.

Every criterion uses deterministic checks. Same site, same audit, same score - every time.

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Citation Avg

Answer Readiness

~40% weight

5/10

Content Structure

~25% weight

5/10

Trust & Authority

~15% weight

5/10

Technical Foundation

~10% weight

6/10

AI Discovery

~10% weight

5/10

Verdict

Below-average AEO readiness at 51/100 - multiple areas need attention. Key strengths include llms.txt File, Schema.org Structured Data, and Fact & Data Density. Priority gaps: RSS/Atom Feed, Definition Patterns, and Canonical URL Strategy.

Top priorities

RSS/Atom FeedDiscovery+10 pts

Definition PatternsStructure+10 pts

Canonical URL StrategyDiscovery+10 pts

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How to Improve

Current

51/100

Projected

80/100

41Total Fixes

15Quick Wins

~86hEst. Effort

Quick Wins

Configure robots.txt for AI crawlersBuild FAQ sections with schemaAdd content freshness signalsAdd structured tables and listsAdd direct answer paragraphsAdd ai.txt and content licensingFix canonical URL strategyImprove query-answer alignmentIncrease content depth and structureImprove citation-ready writing qualityReduce extraction frictionFix duplicate content blocksEliminate cross-page duplicate contentAdd internationalization signalsReduce document weight

Fix

Impact

Effort

Configure robots.txt for AI crawlers

Update robots.txt to explicitly allow AI crawlers and include sitemap directive.

high

trivial

Configure robots.txt for AI crawlers

high|trivial

Fix canonical URL strategy

Add rel="canonical" tags to all pages to prevent duplicate content confusion.

critical

low

Fix canonical URL strategy

critical|low

Reduce document weight

Trim oversized HTML, excessive DOM nodes, and large inline payloads that slow AI crawlers.

high

low

Reduce document weight

high|low

Create complete sitemap.xml

Generate a comprehensive sitemap with lastmod dates for all important pages.

medium

low

Create complete sitemap.xml

medium|low

Fix HTML structure and meta tags

Ensure clean, well-structured HTML with proper meta tags, HTTPS, and parseable content for AI crawlers.

low

Fix HTML structure and meta tags

low|low

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Score Breakdown

Criteria

Status

Potential

Score

RSS/Atom Feed

critical+10 pts0/10

Definition Patterns

critical+10 pts0/10

Canonical URL Strategy

critical+10 pts0/10

Speakable Schema

critical+10 pts0/10

Content Licensing & AI Permissions

critical+8 pts2/10

Author & Expert Schema

critical+8 pts2/10

Creator Transparency

critical+8 pts2/10

Methodology Transparency

critical+8 pts2/10

Image Context for AI

critical+8 pts2/10

Original Data & Expert Analysis

critical+7 pts3/10

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Criterion

Delta

Q&A Content Format

10/10

6/10

-4

Internal Linking Structure

5/10

7/10

Semantic HTML5 & Accessibility

6/10

8/10

Content Freshness Signals

2/10

5/10

Table & List Extractability

0/10

4/10

Direct Answer Paragraphs

3/10

4/10

Author & Expert Schema

0/10

2/10

Query-Answer Alignment

7/10

4/10

-3

Visible Date Signal

0/10

7/10

Topic Coherence

5/10

7/10

Content Depth

3/10

5/10

Helpful Purpose Alignment

8/10

6/10

-2

First-Hand Experience Signals

4/10

3/10

-1

Methodology Transparency

1/10

2/10

Citation-Ready Writing Quality

5/10

4/10

-1

Answer-First Placement

3/10

6/10

Evidence Packaging

0/10

3/10

Entity Disambiguation

0/10

6/10

Extraction Friction Score

6/10

4/10

-2

Image Context for AI

1/10

2/10

Duplicate Content Blocks

10/10

5/10

-5

Cross-Page Duplicate Content

10/10

5/10

-5

Internationalization Signals

3/10

4/10

Page Speed: Page Size

6/10

5/10

-1

Answer Capsule Pattern

4/10

6/10

Owned Data Density

0/10

5/10

Fix Duplicate Content BlocksImprove Question-Answer AlignmentAdd Definition-Style ContentAdd Owned Data SignalsAdd Entity DisambiguationAdd Content Freshness Signals

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Guides for the criteria with the most room for improvement

Criteria0/10

RSS Feed Presence & Quality

Sitemaps tell crawlers what exists. RSS feeds tell them what changed. If you don't have one, your new content waits days -or weeks -to be discovered.

Beginner·3 min readRead guide →

Criteria0/10

Definition Pattern Detection

"What is AEO?" -14% of all AI queries start with "What is." If your content doesn't answer with a clean definition sentence, someone else's will.

Intermediate·5 min readRead guide →

Criteria0/10

Canonical URL Strategy

Same content, three URLs, zero canonical tags. Congratulations -you just split your authority three ways and gave AI crawlers a headache.

Intermediate·5 min readRead guide →

supplementary0/10

Speakable Schema Markup

Voice assistants need to pick which paragraph to read aloud from your page. Without Speakable markup, they guess -and they frequently guess wrong, reading your cookie notice.

Beginner·3 min readRead guide →

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